20 December 2015

tachyphagia

[tak-uh-fey-gee-uh]

Noun

– Excessively rapid eating or bolting of food.

Example

Meal time at the high school camp was an exercise in tachyphagia.

Anagram

a yacht hag pi

Today’s quote

How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, his precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments.

– Benjamin Franklin

On this day

20 December – International Human Solidarity Day – celebrating unity in diversity, as well as reminding people of the importance of solidarity in working towards eradicating poverty.

20 December 1973 – Basque Nationalists kill Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco in a car-bombing in Madrid.

20 December 1989 – Operation ‘Just Cause’ in which President George Bush orders 27,684 U.S. troops into Panama in an effort to oust Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. Noriega surrendered on 3 January 1990.